A Word to Youth

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 12, 1905

SHAKE off your listless, shuffling ways, boys; gather up your God-implanted energies, and set about making all there is to be made of yourselves. Now is your springtime—your budding, growing, improving time; make the most of it, and fill each day to the very brim with sturdy activity and manly action. Throw back your shoulders; straighten up; look with a keen, straight glance out upon the great work field of the world, and see what it can teach you. The world has little need of you as yet, but you have great need of the world. It is full of experiences, and object-lessons, and hints, and suggestions, for the days coming to you. Use your tongues little, but your eyes constantly. If young people would only use well their keen, quick eyes, and be governed by what they see, they would be spared many a tumble into pitfalls that those in advance are just drawing themselves away from.—Selected.